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It places dozens of queries, in dozens of threads
simultaneously and spiders the results (rather as a "first
generation" search engine would do). This could prove very
useful with massive databases such as the human genome,
weather patterns, simulations of nuclear explosions, thematic,
multi-featured databases, intelligent agents (e.g., shopping
bots) and third generation search engines. It could also have
implications on the wireless internet (for instance, in
analysing and generating location-specific advertising) and on
e-commerce (which amounts to the dynamic serving of web
documents).
This transition from the static to the dynamic, from the given
to the generated, from the one-dimensionally linked to the
multi-dimensionally hyperlinked, from the deterministic
content to the contingent, heuristically-created and uncertain
content - is the real revolution and the future of the web.
Search engines have lost their efficacy as gateways. Portals
have taken over but most people now use internal links (within
the same web site) to get from one place to another.
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